A managing director (Ernst-Hugo Järegård) comes uninvited home to one of his workers and humiliates him and his girlfriend.
Acting
Järegård's terrifyingly casual cruelty steals every scene.
Direction
Larsson exploits spatial intimacy for maximum tension.
Director
Stig Larsson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Järegård later became iconic as the sadistic hospital director in Lars von Trier's 'The Kingdom' — this role clearly rehearsed that energy.
Larsson adapted his own play, part of a wave of 1980s Swedish 'class war' cinema that made audiences squirm in their democratic-socialist comfort.
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